Lisa Zunshine

PhD, English

University of California, Santa Barbara

Office: 1365 POT
Phone: 257-6972
E-mail: zunshin@uky.edu

            On leave 2007-2008

Areas of Specialty:

• Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
• Cognitive Cultural Studies

Selected Publications:

Books

• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006 ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative" series).
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2005
• Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Coedited with Jayne Lewis. New York: Modern Language Association, in progress.
• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Coedited with Jocelyn Harris. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006.
• Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Edited volume. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming.
• Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830. Five volumes (edited). London: Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming.
• Philanthropy and Fiction in the 'Long' Eighteenth-Century. Edited Volume. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006 ("Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain" series).
• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. Edited volume. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999

·    “1700-1775: Theory of Mind, Social Hierarchy, and the Emergence of Narrative Subjectivity.” The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English, 700 – the Present. Ed. David Herman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming

·     “Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes Toward Cognitive Historicism.” Toward a Theory of Narrative Acts. Ed. Frederick Aldama. University of Texas Press, forthcoming

·     “Lying Bodies of the Enlightenment: Theory of Mind and Cultural Historicism.” Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming

·     “What is Cognitive Cultural Studies?” Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming

·     “Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency.” Narrative 16.1 (2008): 65-92

·     “Why Jane Austen Was Different, And Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It.” Style 41.3 (2007): 273-297

·     “Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” The Eighteenth-Century Novel 5 (2006): 37-65

·     “Essentialism and Comedy: A Cognitive Reading of the Motif of Mislaid Identity in Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690),” Performance and Cognition: Theatre in the Age of New Cognitive Studies. Ed. Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart. Routledge, 2006. 97-121

·     “Introduction.” Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. vii-xxi

·     “Can We Teach the ‘Deep Intersubjectivity’ of Richardson’s Clarissa?” New Windows on a Woman's World: A Festschrift for Jocelyn Harris. Otago Studies in English, 9. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, 2005. 88-99

·     “The Spectral Hospital: Philanthropy and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Eighteenth-Century Life, 29.1 (2005): 1-22

·     “Teaching Sir Charles Grandison to Undergraduates instead of Pamela,” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Ed. Zunshine and Harris. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. 184-190

·     “Introduction” and “Materials,” Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Ed. Zunshine and Harris. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. xi-xiii, 3-23

·     “Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy for the Eighteenth-Century Stage,” Modern Philology 102.4 (2005): 501-533

·     “Richardson’s Clarissa and a Theory of Mind,” The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Ed. Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky. Ashgate Press, 2004. 127-146

·     “Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness,” Narrative 11.3 (2003): 270-291

Reprinted in The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Ed. David H. Richter, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006

Translated into Russian and reprinted in Dialogue so Vremenem: Almanac of Intellectual History. Moscow: KomKniga. 15 (2005): 263-292

·     “Vladimir Nabokov and the Scriblerians,” Nabokov at Cornell. Ed. Gavriel Shapiro. Cornell University Press, 2003. 161-71

·     “The Gender Dynamics of the Infanticide Prevention Campaign in Eighteenth-Century England and Richardson’s History of Sir Charles Grandison,” Writing English Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859. Ed. Jennifer Thorn. Newark: The University of Delaware Press, 2003. 145-171

·     “Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the ‘Truth’ of Fictional Narrative,” Philosophy and Literature, 25.2 (2001): 215-232

·     “Rhetoric, Cognition, and Ideology in Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s 1781 Hymns in Prose for Children,” Poetics Today, 23.1 (2001): 231- 259

·     “The Politics of Eschatological Prophesy and Dryden’s 1700 The Secular Masque.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 41.3 (2000): 119-137

·     “Nabokov’s ‘On Discovering a Butterfly’ and Pushkin’s ‘Exegi monumentum,’” The Nabokovian (2000): 38-42

·     “Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock and Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire”, Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. 161-82